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A long time ago I hacked my wii, using a HDD to play all my games of. It's very nice, but I encountered a problem that I eventually gave up on and haven't bothered with it since... until now.

I had both a PAL and US GC, so I have both PAL and US games, and so I wanted to make the Wii region free for GC games.
I think I did some form of region free patching, but I can't remember for sure.

I have IOS 249 v.20 and use USB Loader GX. Whenever I mount a GC game, USB Loader reads it fine and tells me what game it is. Running US games is no problem, they work, but whenever I try any PAL games I get a black screen on launch.

The games are all originals, have never tried any GC backups.

My Wii was originally PAL, so it's a bit funny I guess.
When I go into the original Wii Launcher and insert a GC game I get an error and it tells me to remove the disc and reboot. That happens no matter what region the game is.

Arrgh! You don't even know what MIOS or cMIOS you actually have installed?

Anyways, to me it looks like you are forcing the video mode to NTSC which only works for a handful of GC games. And if your games don't work in the disc channel, that's probably because of DarkCrap or a super duper awesome doesn't work, but scews everything up in exchange, priiloader region free hack. With correct IOS and no system menu patch, you should always get the games from the correct region to work. Well if you have a cMIOS with integrated launcher installed, then this should show up and if the games wouldn't work with it, it would be the cMIOS fault. All other MIOS and cMIOS shouldn't screw retail disc loading up.

When I launch it I am asked what MIOS version I would like to install.
Can't find much info on this. The default is v4 so I'll go with that.

I'm pretty sure I've done this before, just with another MIOS installer.
Sorry for being such an idiot, I'm usually not this noob
I just read up on everything and did all the hacking in a day or two a long time ago, and my memory ain't the best, so I'm a little out of touch. It's all been working fine, except for PAL GC games at least...

Another update:
The install went fine, but didn't help much, everything is the same.
It sounds logical that it forces NTSC. Any ideas on how to change that?